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- Consultant Firm Improves Operations With Standard Project Methodology
- Omnios provides business management solutions and related consulting services to help professional services firms and nonprofits improve business intelligence, processes, and project accounting. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Omnios adopted Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step as a standard project management methodology. Taking advantage of the versatility of Sure Step, Omnios incorporated...
- Tags: Business Management, Microsoft Corp., Omnios, Sales Strategy, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- CRM & the Mac is Oranges to, Uh, Apple
- I have two Macs and 2 PCs at home. I have a MacBook Pro laptop which I love and an iMac which I like. While I'm not a fanboy, I'm at least an applecore who thinks that Apple products are not only cool but actually useful and important - especially...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- NextAction! Professional Edition (Mobile)
- NextAction!Implement GTD Getting Things Done with your BlackBerry Wireless HandheldNextAction! for BlackBerry - Professional Edition comes with all features of the Standard Edition. This includes features like: context and project management, actions, someday/maybe lists, QuickSwitch contexts and projects, as well as more useful GTD features. The following features are available...
- Tags: Mobile, Action, NextAction, GTD, Handhelds, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-02-11
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three
- To Recap We're heading into the homestretch. Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night. Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold. For those of you who missed the previous...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here’s the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- MPMM Standard 4.4.0.15 (Windows)
- Online Web Based Project Management Software that can also be downloaded to a PC. You can download a project management methodology complete with templates, examples and case studies. This methodology helps you manage projects than before. Using the project management templates set, you can create project deliverables in a snap....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Method123, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- Sometimes it takes a thousand words
- Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". NT.Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- 13 reasons IT hates metrics
- 13 reasons IT hates metricsYou Missed the Most Important Point...Management likes metrics because numbers on paper or PowerPointless makes it appear that they know what they're talking about, are meeting "goals" and showing "improvement". Unfortunately, IT metrics don't really measure anything meaningful. Take "Lines of Code" for example. On the...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- A programming proposition
- A programming propositionThe problems with prototyping(1) Validation and verification, especially of non-trivial functionality (beyond CRUD + basic aggregation), can be as or more costly than implementation activities. All changes to a production system require regression testing first.(2) Validation and verification are short-changed, leading to applications that yield incorrect and...
- Tags: approval process, specification, programming proposition, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Can computers really read manuscripts?
- Using computers to read handwritten symbols has been done before. But now, researchers in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a system more efficient and reliable than currently existing ones. Their BSM system -- an acronym for 'Blurred Shape Model' -- has been designed to work with ancient, damaged or difficult to...
- Tags: Barcelona, Symbol, Computer, BSM, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
- Development work and team size
- Development work and team sizeBe careful what you wish for...In principal I agree that a programming language that is at a high enough level of abstraction effectively is the specification. I don't think any current languages at least not any widely used ones are up to this however.If the code...
- Tags: Team management, team, software, specification
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- SOAPful and RESTful SOA: co-existing in the enterprise
- Joe McKendrick points to a post by Tim Bray where answers the question "What do you think we should do about SOA?" The context is a Rails conference. Tim says: Don't do anything. 'SOA' may have meant something once but it's just vendor bull**** now....
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-04-28
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy works
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy worksI rarely agree with youBut in this, a hearty AMEN!Yeah, right.Reuse REQUIRES:1) A database of functions2) Good communication3) Developers that will check the database FIRSTSoftware Engineering requires:1) Documentation (Data dictionary, Project Spec.)2) Standard methodologyYou CAN do one without the other - but you...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, information technology, software, programmer, IT Commandment
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- AIX beats Solaris!
- AIX beats Solaris!we have a line for this........ Epitula non erubescit (warrents are patient, sorry for the translation but the online dictionaries couldn't find the proper translation).As always it's a point of view thing, but if youre doing this kind of thing with business economics, it's called Fraud.Thanks!Thanks, Murph.You should...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, survey, Sun Solaris, Hewlett-Packard Co., VPI, JFS2, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-21
- IBM PLM FBC ROI: The Financial Business Case for Product Lifecycle Management Information Technology Decision Making
- Increasingly, PLM investment decision makers are reverting to standard Financial Business Case FBC criteria, such as Return On Investment ROI, net present value, and Total Cost of Ownership TCO, as part of the solution selection evaluation process to help them do this. When company representatives ask solution providers financial questions,...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Financial, Decision-making, ROI, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Business execs are from Mars, IT leaders are from Venus
- Business execs are from Mars, IT leaders are from VenusSynchronized or ParalyzedI work with both CIOs and other C-levels. Any attempt to put all CIOs (or all CFOs, or... ) in the same box is doomed to failure - they are just too different.That said, your question does raise...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, information technology, Business Change Program, Information and Communication Technology, board
- Discussion threads 2005-07-07
- Managing Rapid Application Development Expectations
- Rapid Application Development, or RAD as many of you project management practitioners may know it, is still a valid approach to non-mission-critical project initiatives. Offered as a standard development process in the methodology libraries and tools sets of the early '90s, RAD was intended as a quick and dirty approach...
- Tags: RAD, Project Perfect
- White papers 2005-06-27
- Brixlogic: Next generation XML services
- Brixlogic: Next generation XML servicesNext Generation?When was the FIRST generation of XML services? For a technology that's stuck in first gear, I can see the propoganda need to project an image of "future". SOA is DOA - there are NO big names in the field. Why is that? It means...
- Tags: Insurance, SOA, XML, EDI
- Discussion threads 2005-03-07
- Comparing PRINCE2 With PMBoK
- "PRINCE" stands for Projects IN Controlled Environments and is described as a structured method for effective project management for all types of project, not just for information systems, although the influence of that industry is very clear in the methodology. This paper presents an in-depth look at PRINCE2, a widely...
- Tags: PMBOK, AEW Services, Government, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2003-05-09
- Change the Culture, Save the Organization: The Principal Financial Group Revitalized Its Culture by Adopting a Project Management Approach
- Balancing change with tradition proved to be an essential part of the Principal Financial Group's forward-looking strategy. The Principal needed to transition from its ad hoc approach to a more structured project management environment that included standard methodology, resource evaluation, project planning, collaboration, and project review and analysis. After compiling...
- Tags: Principal Financial Group, Primavera Systems Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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